To enter the chat group, Ash needed to close his eyes and immerse his mind in the speck of light within his brain.
Unless it was during a break, doing so would give off a very strange feeling, and now Ash was not traveling alone, but with two companions, so Ash basically never entered the chat group during the day.
The best time to enter the chat group was when he went to bed at night.
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[Mengxin Xiaozhi: Everyone, I'm here to bubble up.] The term "bubbling up" was also something Ash learned in the group.
[Champion Xiao Zhi: I remember you were going to challenge a Gym today, right? Did you clear the Gym?
[Mengxin Xiaozhi: Yes, I did! The method Tactician Ash taught me was indeed effective. Even when Compound Eyes Sleep Powder was countered, I could still use Supersonic to interfere with the opponent, plus the counter effect of Wave Bomb, this battle was almost won without taking any damage!
Tactician Ash taught Mengxin Xiaozhi how to use Compound Eyes Sleep Powder and also knew the flaw of this tactic. Sleep Powder, after all, is not Hypnosis; powder-based moves are easily countered by external factors.
Wind, water, or fire could all dispel Sleep Powder, so Tactician Ash also gave Ash a second backup plan: Supersonic.
The main reason Tactician Ash had Mengxin Xiaozhi catch Caterpie back then was that Butterfree's moves were enough to annoy someone to death. It was the lowest-tier Pokémon with added abnormal status effects that a beginner could find.
Pokémon like Grimmsnarl and Amoonguss were not something Ash could find and catch at his current stage, but for the current Ash, a Butterfree was enough.
[Bo Dao Yong Zhe Xiao Zhi: How is it, isn't Aura Fusion Resonance useful?
[Mengxin Xiaozhi: Yes! The Bo-do Power is like an endless source. No matter how much I explore, it seems there are always new uses. Even though the chat group provided 'instructions for use,' I feel there are still many areas I haven't unearthed.
[Bo Dao Yong Zhe Xiao Zhi: Heh, of course. This is the most top-tier power in the Pokémon world. As long as you can fully unearth it, it's not a problem to even wrestle with Divine Realm Grade Pokémon.
Wrestling with Divine Realm Grade Pokémon...
When Ash saw this sentence, he immediately thought of Ho-Oh.
The Ho-Oh, with its Divine Realm Grade peak power, had Bo-do Power within it like a vast ocean, endless. His Bo-do Power was not just a little bit inferior compared to the other party's.
Can humans really raise Aura to that extent?
[Champion Xiao Zhi: Speaking of which, have you met three strange guys? The ones with a Meowth, who keep shouting about being cute and charming villains or something similar.
[Mengxin Xiaozhi: Yes, I have! They were sent flying by my Pikachu! That was also my first time trying Aura Fusion.
[Bo Dao Yong Zhe Xiao Zhi: Good heavens, it seems you still can't escape your entanglement with those people, can you? You need to be careful in the future; Pikachu has already been targeted by those guys.
[Mengxin Xiaozhi: Huh? What do you mean?
[Tactician Ash: You'll find out later; they are incredibly annoying guys.
[Champion Xiao Zhi: Heh heh, but in reality, they aren't bad people; they just went astray. In some parallel worlds, there are timelines where they are reformed. But compared to them, newbie, you haven't drawn a prize in a long time, have you? Go check your draw chances.
Draw chances?
Ash paused, then remembered that he had already cleared his first Gym. According to the seniors in the group, certain commemorative firsts would grant draw chances, like achievements.
Defeating the first Gym should count as commemorative, right?
Ash clicked on the group chat's notification bar, and sure enough, there were two messages.
[First encounter with Team Rockets trio, gained draw chance * 1]
[First time sending Team Rockets trio flying, gained draw chance * 1]
[First time clearing a Gym, gained draw chance * 1]
Three... three draws?
Ash blinked, his clear eyes filled with surprise. He hadn't expected to get three draw chances.
Among them, encountering Team Rockets alone gave him two draw chances: one for encountering them, and one for sending them flying. What kind of people were the Team Rockets trio that they could give him two draws?
Thinking of what the seniors in the group said about being endlessly entangled with the Team Rockets trio in the future, Ash had a bad premonition.
But that was for later; for now, he would use his draw chances.
Ash directly performed a triple draw. Three pointers spun rapidly on the turntable. With a thought from Ash, the pointers slowly stopped, finally landing on three spots.
[Congratulations! You've drawn A-rank ability: Special Attack Ability Upper Limit Increase.]
[Congratulations! You've drawn C-rank ability: Beginner Breeder.]
[Congratulations! You've drawn S-rank one-time ability: Chosen One's Radiance.]
A-rank, C-rank, and S-rank—an S-rank ability appeared again! Good heavens, what kind of luck is this!
When Ash saw the pointer land in that minuscule area, he thought the thing had a bug. That area was truly so small that it was barely visible to the naked eye. Such an extremely tiny probability, to appear on the first try, Ash felt like he might have used up all his luck for this lifetime.
The seniors in the group had also said that out of tens of thousands of draw chances, only one or two S-rank abilities had appeared, because S-rank abilities were indeed somewhat heaven-defying.
Just look at the Bo-do Power he inherited; he was originally only slightly stronger than the average person, but after gaining Bo-do Power, he directly became a superhuman!
Once he fully mastered Bo-do Power, just with his current strength, without even training, he could contend with Champion-level Pokémon!
Isn't such an ability heaven-defying?
For such a heaven-defying ability, a probability of one in ten thousand is very normal, but he had only drawn six times so far, and he got two S-ranks, two A-ranks, and two C-ranks. Is this reasonable?
Feiqiu Xiao Zhi would want to hit someone after seeing this, right?
And for this ability draw, Ash already knew what the first and second ones were, but what was the third one?
What is "Chosen One's Radiance"?
[Mengxin Xiaozhi: Seniors, I'm back from drawing, but there's something I don't understand about what I drew.
[Feiqiu Xiao Zhi: Seriously, buddy, what did you draw again? It's not another A-rank or B-rank ability, is it?
[Mengxin Xiaozhi: Uh... why wouldn't it be D-rank or E-rank?
[Feiqiu Xiao Zhi: Heh heh, because those abilities are completely useless things that you can understand without anyone explaining them. E-rank abilities are some useless knowledge similar to hoeing the ground. D-rank skills might give you some driving skills or computer usage skills, but those are beginner-level skills, better than nothing.
[Feiqiu Xiao Zhi: Only C-rank and above will have some relatively rare abilities, like the one you drew before... So, what rank did you draw this time?
[Mengxin Xiaozhi: S-rank.
[Feiqiu Xiao Zhi: ???]
[Feiqiu Xiao Zhi: You && * * %& * @]